Women Voters' League meeting. Guest speaker from Brazil talks to league meeting attendees. Narrator comments on the work of the women's suffrage movement in the United States that led to this point. Women in classes sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Male instructor at world globe. Female instructor demonstrates how to mark a ballot. Woman at store newsstand buys a newspaper. Children in street at play and in a fight. View of a slum area and of abandoned, blighted property with eroded land in front. Labor picket line and picket holding and men in a fight during a picket line demonstration. Grain truck with sign 'UNRRA' and "Mercy Wheat" sign on it. Mayor of New York Fiorello Laguardia with unidentified man at a factory. View of United Nations General assembly in meeting. Men and women meet at home. They vote by a show of hands. Woman writes letter and so does a man. Woman places letter in mail box. Woman hands letters to a Senator. Senator reads letters. (World War II period).
Women vote for a public bill for a housing project in Riverdale, New York. Woman sits at table in bank, hands out information leaflets. Women pass voting leaflets near trolley or streetcar, car, bus and at railroad train station as train arrives. Women speak at a radio station. View of radio announcer at console in radio studio. Close up views of different men and women speaking on old telephones. Men and women walk into a voting room. Woman in voting booth marks ballot. Hands mark 'no' and 'yes' in ballot. Woman walks past housing construction. Man at counter of a food grocery store. Women speak to the man and to each other in the grocery store Produce on stands seen in background.
On life in the southern mountainous areas of Kentucky and Tennessee. View of mountains and jungle. View of row of cottages and houses. American family sits on the porch of a house. Old woman with a baby.
Life in southern mountainous areas of Kentucky and Tennessee. American men stand and pose in the porch of a house. Two men play checkers. Both men wearing dungarees. View of checker board with set checker pieces on it. A third man wearing glasses is looking on.
On life in the southern mountainous areas of Kentucky and Tennessee. Old American woman makes a basket with bamboo sticks. The old woman holds a finished basket made of bamboo stick.
On life in the Southern Mountainous areas of Kentucky and Tennessee. Old woman knits a sweater while another woman spins wool on handloom. Woman sits and examines woolen garment.
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